What are the common varieties of vegetables? A detailed introduction to the main types

Vegetables are an indispensable food in people's daily lives. In some places, vegetables are called meat-free dishes or side dishes. What about where you are? It is summer right now, and below Nongxun Network the editor will introduce several types of summer vegetables that clear heat.

1. Bitter melon

Bitter melon is native to the East Indies and is widely cultivated in tropical to temperate regions around the world. It is commonly cultivated in both northern and southern China. The fruit tastes sweet and bitter, and is mainly used as a vegetable, though it can also be candied. Bitter melon can clear irritability and heat from the heart and remove toxins from the body. The best way to eat bitter melon is still cold dressed. Cold dressing can very well preserve the vitamins contained in bitter melon.

2. Luffa

It is commonly cultivated in both northern and southern China. It is also widely cultivated in temperate and tropical regions around the world. There is a wild form in southern Yunnan, but the fruit is relatively short and small. The fruit is a summer vegetable, and when mature the reticular fibers inside are called luffa sponge, which can replace sponges for washing stoves and furniture; it can also be used medicinally, with effects of cooling, promoting urination, invigorating blood, freeing the meridians, and detoxifying.

3. Cucumber

Cucumber is now widely planted in temperate and tropical regions. Cucumber is one of the main summer vegetables in all parts of China. The stem and vine are used medicinally and can reduce inflammation, expel phlegm, and relieve spasms.

4. Tomato

One of the vegetables people often eat in summer. People often eat chilled tomatoes, mainly as a cold dish. Tomato is native to South America, with fleshy and juicy texture, yellow seeds, and a flowering and fruiting period in summer and autumn.

5. Wild rice stem

In China it is produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, China, and elsewhere. The Manchurian wild rice has great economic value. After the tender stem at the base of the stalk is parasitized by fungi, it becomes thick, plump, and tender, similar to bamboo shoots, and is called wild rice shoot (gaosun, jiaobai, jiaogua). It is a delicious vegetable.

6. Eggplant

Eggplant is cultivated in every province of our country, and the fruit can be eaten as a vegetable. The root, stem, and leaves are used as medicine and serve as an astringent, with a diuretic effect; the leaves can also be used as an anesthetic. The seeds are a swelling-reducing medicine and are also used as a stimulant, but they easily cause weakness of the stomach and constipation. Eating the fruit raw can relieve poisoning from eating mushrooms.

In fact, there are still many, many varieties of vegetables, such as celery, cilantro, Malabar spinach, cilantro, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and so on. They are mainly divided into root and stem types, leafy types, solanaceous fruit types, cruciferous types, and so on. Which one do you like to eat most?

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